The first case of coronavirus has been detected among staff at the European Commission, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
The woman came back from Italy and has been in quarantine since last week, an EU official said. The EU Commission has a staff of around 32,000.
Last week, another EU body, the European Defence Agency, reported a case of coronavirus among its staff. The official had also recently traveled to northern Italy. The Council of the European Union decided to send close to 50 people home after two staff members tested positive for the virus.
The European Parliament has moved a plenary session that was scheduled for next week in the French city of Strasbourg to Brussels due to concerns of contagion.